The current study provides a systematic examination of child care quality around the globe,
using the Environment Rating Scales (ERS). Additional goals of this study are to examine …

Background: The attachment relationships of infants reared in residential group care from
birth, and links between attachment quality and psychosocial development and caregiver …

In this study, the concept of 'goodness-of-fit'between the child's temperament and the
environment, introduced by Thomas and Chess [Temperament and Development …

Research Findings: High-quality caregiver–child interactions constitute the core of high-
quality child care for young children. This article describes the background and development …

The purpose of this study was to describe the quality of toddler child care classrooms in the
district of Porto, in the north of Portugal. One hundred and sixty classrooms for children …

The Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS) has been widely used in research studies to
measure the quality of caregiver–child interactions. The scale was modeled on a well …

Mothers and primary professional caregivers of 186 children, aged 6–30 months,
participated in this study in which a new measure for daily stability in center day care was …

This study examines the quality of infant center care in Portugal through a multi-measure
approach and investigates the associations among process quality dimensions and …

The authors assessed the quality of child care in a representative national sample of 42
child-care centers in the Netherlands and compared it with the quality of care that …

Though quality in early childhood education and care has attracted last decades enormous
research interest there is still not a unanimous agreement about its definition. Yet, almost all …